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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations; people want to be liked, not endured
Drawn from what Bertrand Russell said
What Bertrand Russell actually said
- Bertrand Russell British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970)
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Where this was said
↗The Conquest of Happiness (1930)gutenberg.org
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